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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1959
Page
6
Police were alerted after Arthur Crowell, plant official, spotted a prowler during a routine check at the Model Dairy plant, discovering an empty orange juice carton and a window entry. The intruder fled before officers arrived, leaving Crowell to flag down the call.
O J Skiff died at Corry Memorial Hospital after a year long illness. He lived in Dunkirk previously and for many years worked with Alcoa Company in the Jalen twin ton area. Survived by wife Avie Demapsey Bit, by a husband and several children and brothers. Service details and funeral arrangements were incomplete in readable text.
A partial obituary style notice details a boy’s 10th birthday amid a tangled report referencing families and local names. The fragment references neighbors, a marine context, and a caregiver scene, preserving names where readable while avoiding graphic detail.
An Erie educator was elected to a state post, becoming the first from the area to hold the statewide role. The event is noted amid local pride as the new president of a regional education association. The appointment highlights ongoing collaboration between Erie schools and state education initiatives, with the leader slated to influence policy and standards.
Florence Nightingale birthday observance marks National Hospital Week with Corry Memorial Hospital and others nationwide. In the Central Supply room Miss Dorothy Hanlin RN and Mrs Carl Leave RN explain autoclaving and sterility controls. Mrs Roy Heed directs nurses in the Emergency Room where about 650 emergency treatments are given yearly and the room operates 24 hours daily.
The article reports on ongoing steel industry wage talks with both sides far apart. Management negotiator Cooper signals no immediate demand for drastic wage hikes, while union officials press for higher pay. Talks focus on inflation, productivity, and potential one-year extensions before the current expiring agreement.
Tornadoes cut a path through green bay and suburbs Preble and Ashiya, wrecking six homes and damaging fifty more. Roofs torn from two paper plants and four industrial buildings collapsed. High voltage wires failed. Smaller twisters touched Elwood Kansas and Elmo Missouri with minor property damage. St Joseph winds unroofed an old theater.
Congresssman Carroll Kearns announced plans for a 24 hour all weather station at Port Erie airport, expanding the current facility run by Arvid Klemetsmo. The project, pending congressional funding, would add five staff and elevate Erie to a rare nationwide weather outlet available around the clock.
Governor David L. Lawrence designated May 1959 as Better Hearing Month in Pennsylvania with the American Hearing Society. He noted about 15 million Americans have some hearing loss, including 3 million children, and urged public awareness and expanded services for the acoustically handicapped. He called on citizens to help prevent deafness conserve hearing and rehabilitate the hard of hearing.
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